staphn.
/staf/ colloquial.
= staphylococcus n., a genus of pathogenic bacteria.
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1933 E. Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday iii. iii. 190 Staph, staphylococcus, one of the commonest types of bacteria.
1956 A. Huxley Let. 13 Aug. (1969) 804 The average mortality after surgery was twenty-nine per cent, with peaks, during epidemics of streps and staphs, of over fifty per cent.
1978 J. Irving World according to Garp ii. 47 He later went through Harvard Business School, a staph infection, and a divorce.
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